How? Encrypt and Decrypt user membership passwords in ASP.NET

Question

We are creating a new site using ASP.NET membership provider for user registration and log in. Our old system encrypted user passwords so that we could recover them if we ne

Answer 1

You need to use passwordFormat="Encrypted" rather than passwordFormat="Hashed". Then you can use the DecryptPassword method of the MembershipProvider to decrypt the password when necessary.